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INSIDE YOUR CAMERA Continued from page 79 Existing motor drives, film winders, data backs, 250-exposure backs and, of course, all lenses are fully interchange able among all four OM models, including the OM-3. This modular “systems” approach allows photographers to add a wide variety of specialized accessorizes. The pentameter housing section atop the OM-4 was designed for maximum compactness, yet it contains some of the camera's most important and innovative features.
INSIDE YOUR CAMERA Continued from page 136 This full-time monitoring capability is | made possible by the time-sharing system of the CPU, which transmits the results of all calculations immediately to the LCD driver, At the same time, the CPU outputs the results of these escalation to the shutter-speed ICs in order to control the exposure. Both AE shutter speeds and flash brightness are controlled in a similar manner, the end results of any of these | processes being a single, correct-exposure value.
INSIDE YOUR CAMERA Contact from page 138 the user selects the spot-metering mode, 2 diamond-shaped dot appears above the bar fo mark each individual spot-metering value up to a total of eight separate readings. Viewing these dots shows, at a glance, the distribution of exposure readiness, so the photographer can easily grasp the range of exposure valise and balance of each scene or subject.